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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag has occurred near Tadine in New Caledonia


Earthquake location -21.99S, 169.6208WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 186 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia (116 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 05/10/18 / 2018-10-05 21:08:29 / October 5, 2018 @ 9:08 pm. Unique identifier: us1000h7v7. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h7v7. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.6208 East, latitude -21.99 South, depth = 18.17 km. The temblor was reported at 08:08:29 / 8:08 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.17 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 186 km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.6208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -21.99° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.17 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 186km ESE of Tadine, New Caledonia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-10-05 21:08:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-05 21:29:22 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 449 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.106 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000h7v7 Id of event.
Event Code 1000h7v7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h7v7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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